The BEST episodes directed by Norman Lloyd
#1 - The Life Work of Juan Diaz
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 3 - Episode 4
Juan Diaz is dying and penniless. His last wish is that he can provide financial security for his family. About a year later, a gravedigger named Alejandro exhumes Juan's corpse to make room in the cemetery. He has it mummified and sotries it in a crypt with a number of other mummies. Juan wife, Maria, discovers Alejandro plan and steals Juan's body. She hangs it in the house and tells tourists that it is a authentic Mexican mummy. Money from the tourists pays for food and clothing for Maria and her three children. Eventually, however, Maria is overcome by the ghoulishness of what she has done. She begs for forgiveness, but a gleam in the eye of the corpses body reveals that Juan approves of what she has done.
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#2 - The Jar
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 2 - Episode 17
At a carnival sideshow, a farmer named Charlie Hill buys a strange jar, which brings him notoriety and respect in the community because people travel for miles to gather in his parlor and look at the jar and it's obscure content. But his young wife, Thedy Sue, is frightened of it and insists that he throw it out.
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#3 - Final Vow
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 1 - Episode 6
Sister Pamela suffers a crisis of conscience just as she is about to take her final vows. Is her belief real or is she just hiding from the rest of the world? The sisters in the convent give her time to think everything over by letting her pick up a valuable statue from a reformed gangster. As she is returning, however, the statue is stolen by a young criminal named Jimmy Bresson. In order to get the statue back she leaves the convent and hunts Jimmy down. She arranges to have a date with him to get into his apartment. Unfortunately, she discovers that he has pawned the statue. She takes the pawn ticket and heads for the pawn shop. As she is about to get it back, Jimmy catches her. Jimmy and the dishonest pawn shop owner want to kill Pamela, but they want to have the statue appraised first. They call an appraiser, but it turns out to be the man who originally offered the statue to the convent. He tells them that the statue is worthless and convinces them to let Pamela go. Having confr
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#4 - Man from the South
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 15
A down-on-his-luck gambler bets his hand (literally) for a convertible, but the game is stopped by a person with an even larger interest in the outcome.
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#6 - Youth from Vienna
Tales of the Unexpected - Season 6 - Episode 13
Caroline Coates, a television station interviewer, is promoted to be anchorwoman of the station's main news programme - and there are two men who want to marry her. But Caroline worries that she won't keep her looks forever. Humphrey Baxter, one of her admirers, is a scientist working on a formula to stop the aging process. Unfortunately, though, some of the effects of the fountain of eternal youth are unforeseen...
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#7 - The Day of the Bullet
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 20
When Clete Vine, a successful businessman, reads about a gangster's violent death, he recalls how he and a childhood friend were profoundly affected by an event that began with their innocent admiration of an elegant car.
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#8 - Hooked
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 38
Believing that financial reasons prevent him from leaving his wife, an unhappily married man and the woman he really loves hatch a scheme that they believe will solve all their problems.
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#9 - Anniversary Gift
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 6
Sick of his wife's menagerie of strange and high-maintenance animals, a frazzled husband decides to get her the perfect present - a highly poisonous coral snake.
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#10 - Incident in a Small Jail
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 23
An arresting tale of crime and misdemeanor in a small town sees a traveling salesman embroiled in deceit and murder. In a twisted variation on the prince and the pauper, the swapping of clothes reveals the true identity of a murderous fiend.
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#11 - Strange Miracle
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 19
Following a train accident, Mr. Sequiras fakes being paralyzed from the waist down so he can collect compensation from the train company. When tiring of having to pretend he cannot walk, Sequiras comes up with a plan to "walk" again when meeting a girl who really is paralyzed.
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#12 - No Pain
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 5
Nothing is as it seems when a polio victim in an iron lung suspects his wife of becoming attracted to a new neighbor and wonders if she's planning to get rid of him for good.
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#13 - Human Interest Story
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 32
A newspaper reporter gets a tip about an out of this world story: a man who claims to be a Martian.
#14 - Six People, No Music
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 13
A funeral parlor owner is put in an awkward position when a deceased client comes back to life and demands a much smaller affair than what was planned for his funeral.
#15 - Safety for the Witness
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 8
A gunsmith sets his sight on two gangsters who will kill him if he testifies to what they've purchased in court.
#16 - The Contest for Aaron Gold
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 4
A pensive, withdrawn child attending a summer camp fashions a one-armed warrior knight in clay, to the consternation of his counselors. Is there a reason behind this particular display?
#17 - Very Moral Theft
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 3
Lumbered with more than an enormous debt, a businessman needs money - and fast. His doting fiance-in-waiting provides an instant solution, but in so doing, her act of desperate kindness leads to fatal consequences.
#18 - I Spy
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 9
Private detective Al Frute falls love with his client's wife when her husband hires him to prove her infidelity. Al decides the best way forward is to provide the required evidence to ensure a happy ending for all.
#19 - The Faith of Aaron Menefee
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 17
When a faith-healer cures a mechanic's stomach ulcer, it leads to love and murder.
#20 - The $2,000,000 Defense
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 5
A lawyer gets creative when the man he is defending offers him half of his net worth if he will find a way out of the case.
#21 - You Can't Be a Little Girl All Your Life
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 7
When a young wife is assaulted in her home, her husband is enraged upon her selecting who she thinks was the culprit from a police line-up. But his wife is on the brink of making a shocking discovery.
#22 - Special Delivery
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 10
After his neighbor warns him about suspicious disappearances around them, a man wonders if the vanishings have anything to do with a delivery to his young son.
#23 - Your Witness
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 31
A prominent lawyer appears able to manipulate any situation successfully - except, perhaps, for his marriage.
#24 - O Youth and Beauty!
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 8
A midlife crisis for a man with a teenage past boasting athletic prowess and vigor puts a dangerous strain on his marriage, and his own physical state. How much more can a wife take living under starter's orders?
#25 - Wet Saturday
Tales of the Unexpected - Season 7 - Episode 8
Wet weather, and a dead body in the house. Mr Princey's dim-witted daughter, Millicent, thwarted in love, has killed a young preacher with a croquet mallet, and Princey decides he must cover it up, or risk losing his high standing in the community. The police need to be persuaded that there was a tragic accident...
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